Switzerland summit
Mount Pilatus
You can see 189 km from here, looking north-west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 189 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 189 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,372Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,065 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,372 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from July to September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon26%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon33%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon29%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon40%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon31%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Mount Pilatus.
Mountain massif in central Switzerland
Mount Pilatus is a summit in Switzerland, 2,065 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 189 km away, looking north-west.
1,372 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m), 49 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Städerried Campcampsite · 3.7 km · 10 within 10 km
- Hotel Restaurant Hammerplace to stay · 4.2 km · 126 within 10 km
- Alpnachnearest town · 4.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AlpnachBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bern Airport (BRN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 57 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRN airport (Bern)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 12other viewpoints within 5 kmEsel and 11 more
- 25named peaks within 5 kmTomlishorn, Mittaggüpfi, Esel and 22 more
- 11cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmPilatus Kulm (Luftseilbahn), Fräkmüntegg (Kriens), Krienseregg and 8 more
- 74marked trails within 3 kmBalismatt - Felli, Felli - Widderfeld, Märenschlag - Felli and 71 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmWaldhütte Halti, Alt Bergstation Alp Gschwänd and 6 more
- 17car parks within 3 km
- 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmStäderried Camp, Campingplatz Alpnachersee, Camping Ebnet "Bio Bauernhof" and 7 more
- 126places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Hammer, Ibis, Seehotel Sternen and 123 more
- visitor centres within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Mount Pilatus, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas338 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mount Pilatus
Switzerland
- 77Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,372Peaks in view
- 2,065 mAltitude
Titlis
Switzerland · 27 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,707Peaks in view
- 3,167 mAltitude
Schreckhorn
Switzerland · 44 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,630Peaks in view
- 3,919 mAltitude
Eiger
Switzerland · 48 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,940Peaks in view
- 4,067 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q15265) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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